Description

Agenda created for a meeting with Mildred Bliss October 30-31, 1944 discussing many projects involving sketches, walls, inscriptions, gardens, entrances, enlargements of existing structures, plantings and repairs in the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens.

First page handwritten in pencil; second page typewritten, both unsigned. Probably created by Beatrix Farrand for a scheduled visit and meeting with Mildred Bliss based on the signed correspondence B:BF 1944.10.16 discussing the some of the same agenda items.

Agenda marked as received at Dumbarton Oaks, October 18.

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

agendas (administrative records)

notes

walls

sketches

inscriptions

gardens (open spaces)

libraries (buildings)

garden structures

trees

vegetables

postcards

picture postcards

paving

flagstone

gravel

concrete

Magnolia (genus)

oak

Quercus (genus)

planting plans

gates

roses

benches (furniture)

birds in art

repairing

hedges

bulbs (plants)

nurseries (horticulture)

Chrysanthemum (genus)

Ilex (genus)

tiger in art

sculpture (visual work)

architectural ornament

azaleas

budgets

meetings

Seeds

Flowers

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives

Repository

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Rare Book Collection

Dumbarton Oaks, Washington (D.C)

Accession number

B:BF 1944.10.18

Alternative title

Agenda for meeting October 30-31, 1944 with Mildred Barnes Bliss for Dumbarton Oaks by Beatrix Farrand, October 1944